Hi, welcome to the Young Widow Podcast. I'm Britany, your host, and I'm happy you could join today for episode 26: Why We Keep Everything.
So I just came off of a conference weekend where I was speaking in Houston and this question came up by somebody that was attending the conference and it was in a different workshop than I was hosting.
And I jotted down in my notebook that I wanted to do a podcast on this as soon as possible, because I'm a 'why' person and what that means is that I wanna know why my brain does things. Why do I have these weird habits and grief?
And so if you're like me, I wanna explain the science behind why we keep everything after our person dies.
And there are three major things here that we're gonna talk about: memory connection, the dopamine factor, and then loss aversion.
And so with that, let's just jump in and I'm just gonna start from my perspective.
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